Home Page
Quick Facts
On This Day
Did You Know?
Glossary
Explore Topics
SOME
FACTS
Quick Facts
-
On This Day
-
Did You Know?
On this day - July 25
306 — Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
315 — The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome ...
677 — Climax of the Siege of Thessalonica by the Slavs in a three-day ...
864 — The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive ...
918 — Wang Geon becomes King of Goryeo after overthrowing Gung Ye in ...
1137 — Eleanor of Aquitaine marries Prince Louis, later King Louis ...
1139 — Battle of Ourique: The Almoravids, led by Ali ibn Yusuf, are ...
1261 — The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces ...
1278 — The naval Battle of Algeciras takes place in the context of ...
1467 — The Battle of Molinella: The first battle in Italy in which ...
1536 — Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the ...
1538 — The city of Guayaquil is founded by the Spanish Conquistador ...
1547 — Henry II of France is crowned.
1554 — The royal wedding of Mary I and Philip II of Spain celebrated ...
1567 — Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de ...
1591 — The Duke of Parma is defeated near the Dutch city of Nijmegen ...
1593 — Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to ...
1603 — James VI and I and Anne of Denmark are crowned in Westminster ...
1609 — The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, is ...
1668 — A magnitude 8.5 earthquake strikes eastern China, killing over ...
1693 — Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now ...
1718 — At the behest of Tsar Peter the Great, the construction of ...
1722 — Dummer's War begins along the Maine-Massachusetts border.
1755 — British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council ...
1759 — French and Indian War: In Western New York, British forces ...
1783 — American Revolutionary War: The war's last action, the ...
1788 — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G ...
1792 — The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris ...
1797 — Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm ...
1799 — Napoleon Bonaparte defeats a numerically superior Ottoman army ...
1814 — War of 1812: An American attack on Canada is repulsed.
1824 — Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua.
1835 — James Bowman Lindsay demonstrates a constant electric light at ...
1837 — The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is ...
1853 — Joaquin Murrieta, the famous Californio bandit known as the ...
1861 — American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the ...
1866 — The United States Congress passes legislation authorizing the ...
1868 — The Wyoming Territory is established.
1869 — The Japanese daimyōs begin returning their land holdings to ...
1894 — The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon ...
1897 — American author Jack London embarks on a sailing trip to take ...
1898 — Spanish–American War: The American invasion of Spanish-held ...
1908 — Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial ...
1909 — Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English ...
1915 — RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit ...
1917 — Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as ...
1925 — Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
1934 — The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss ...
1940 — General Henri Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German ...
1942 — The Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the ...
1943 — World War II: 136 Greek civilians are murdered by soldiers of ...
1943 — World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by the ...
1944 — World War II: Operation Spring near Caen is one of the ...
1946 — The Crossroads Baker device is the first underwater nuclear ...
1956 — Forty-five miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean ...
1957 — The Tunisian King Muhammad VIII al-Amin is replaced by ...
1958 — The African Regroupment Party holds its first congress in ...
1961 — Cold War: In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any ...
1965 — Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, ...
1969 — Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon ...
1971 — The Sohagpur massacre is perpetrated by the Pakistan Army.
1973 — Soviet Mars 5 space probe is launched.
1976 — Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.
1978 — Birth of Louise Joy Brown, the first human to have been born ...
1978 — Puerto Rican police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro ...
1979 — In accord with the Egypt–Israel peace treaty, Israel begins ...
1983 — Black July: Thirty-seven Tamil political prisoners at the ...
1984 — Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman ...
1993 — The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape ...
1993 — Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the ...
1994 — Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, that ...
1995 — A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the ...
1996 — In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre ...
2000 — Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes outside of Paris ...
2001 — Phoolan Devi, a serving Member of Parliament, was assassinated ...
2007 — Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female ...
2010 — WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in ...
2018 — As-Suwayda attacks: Coordinated attacks occur in Syria.
2019 — National extreme heat records set this day in the UK, Belgium, ...